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Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE

Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE. BUREACRACY IMPERSONAL IRON CAGE RATIONAL AUTHORITY PESSIMISTIC WILL JUST GET WORSE. MAX WEBER STARTIFICATION SYSTEM. Based on Power Economic power Power for power’s sake Power as basis of social honor Multidimensional — Tripartite

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Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE

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  1. Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE • BUREACRACY • IMPERSONAL • IRON CAGE • RATIONAL AUTHORITY • PESSIMISTIC • WILL JUST GET WORSE

  2. MAX WEBERSTARTIFICATION SYSTEM • Based on Power • Economic power • Power for power’s sake • Power as basis of social honor • Multidimensional — Tripartite • Social Order — Social honor (status) • Economic Order — Market position in the economic order (class) • Political Order — Power to exert will (political party)

  3. MAX WEBERDEFINITION OF CLASS • Commercial Class • Position of individuals in the marketplace • Skills, characteristics and demand • opportunity to exploit the market • Property or lack of it • Propertied • Non-propertied class

  4. MAX WEBERSTATUS GROUPCharacteristicsBased Upon Social Estimation of Honor • Lifestyles • status conventions and traditions • Endogamy • restricted patterns of social interaction including marriage • Material monopoly • over certain economic activity and rejection of other economic activity. • Sharing of benefits with the group.

  5. Max WeberStatus Transformation into Caste • Stability over time • Rituals, Laws, and Conventions • reinforce and legitimize caste status • Ethnic Component • Segregation • Vertical Distribution of Honor • Ethnic Distinction becomes Functional

  6. Max WeberPower • Action oriented towards achieving communal action for members • Basis of party can be anything • class, status, religion, etc.. • Leadership types • traditional • charismatic • rational-legal

  7. Max WeberSocial Change • Communal Action • action based on feeling of actors that they belong together • Societal Action • rationally motivated adjustment of interests

  8. Max WeberSocial Change • Likelihood of Class Action is Small Unless • transparent connection between position and class situation • immediate opponent on whom class can focus • large number of people in the same class position • goals interpreted by the intelligentsia • Class for itself versus Class in itself • interaction between classes • most bitter among those who participate in price war

  9. Max WeberSocial Change • Condition that contribute or diminish likelihood of social change • threat to status order in favor of class results when: • technological reformation • economic reformation • Stability in Economic Order • pushes status to the forefront and posters growth of status structure

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